cupery.net - The Paper Boat Page

Description: History of 19th century paper boat builders & modern-day paper boaters. (And even how to fold a paper boat from a sheet of paper!)

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First..... If you came here from a Google search for instructions about folding a sheet of paper into a little boat like the one at the left, we can help!! Click it and we'll give you the instructions.

If you're interested in the other kind of paper boats ... real ones ... read on.

This web page is primarily devoted to an obscure subject in the history of technology: the manufacture of full size boats from paper during the later half of the 19th century. These were not toy boats, but boats people could ride around in; racing shells, canoes and rowboats.

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